The morning newspaper, the Arizona Daily Star, reports that “voter defeat of the proposed sales tax increase will result in a loss of 20,500 jobs”. Yes, that is probably true and they are all related to growing the government in one way or the other. At some point in our lives we have to decide if we are a free enterprise society or are we alive strictly to provide a tax base for others to use as a means governing our lives. The article goes on to state that city, county and state governments everywhere are devising means to increase taxes in order to maintain there “level of services”. Well, quite frankly, we don’t need their “level of services” as we are quite capable of taking care of ourselves; or am I wrong? The founding fathers of this great nation determined in 1775 that the current administration, the British Empire under the reign of King George, was unfairly taxing the goods and wealth of the colonies and thus it was time that the colonies put their foot down. Hence, the American Revolution and the drafting of our Declaration of Independence” and the "Constitution of the United States”.
No one is suggesting that we start another revolution, at least not one where conflict is a waging of war. What I am getting at is the Constitution states that they; in this case we the people, wanted to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessing of liberty. Nowhere within the confines of this document does it say that we are to get back to the ways of King George and tax the hell out of us. Taxation has become symbolic with more government and more government related employment. Our problems are directly related to growing government and that is in direct conflict with the Constitution. Statistics now show that not only is government the largest single employer in the country, actually the world, they show that government employees on average are the highest paid employees. All of the monies needed to feed this beast comes from taxation and now every form of government is proposing to raise taxes again. The new proposal to raise Arizona’s sales tax would effectively increase the total sales tax in Tucson to 9.1%. Just think for a moment on that number; almost 10% would be added to your purchases and why? To feed the beast, that’s why. We can look at it from any and every way and it all adds up to “feeding the beast”. State, county and city officials all say that without the increase they will have to cut back on services. Well what’s wrong with that? That is what businesses do when things get tough but with government there is relatively little thought of cutting back. Quite the contrary, they just find ways to raise taxes and fees. The federal government currently has debt equal to approximately 83% of the Gross Domestic Product at year ending 2009 and is projected to be 94% by FY 2011.
Just exactly what did the founders have in mind when they wrote this Constitution? Well folks, your guess is as good as the next person’s but I damn well know that raising taxes to grow the government was the farthest thing from their minds and to prove the point they were willing to put their lives on the line.
Before we raise sales taxes, as proposed, let’s just cut back on all non-essential services in all branches of government. What you may ask are non-essential services? Well, I will leave that up to you to decide and I am sure you can come up with more answers collectively than I can independently. I would wager that if there is a continued need for a “non-essential service” private enterprise will jump in and pick up the slack, and yes, it is better that they do it rather than government. Why you ask? To start with private enterprise can smell profit a mile away and when the need dies down, private enterprise will cut back since they cannot just go out and take money from the citizens to continue supporting of a glutted payroll.
In closing I urge each and every one of you to research this and hopefully you will come to the same conclusion that I did: VOTE NO on Proposition 100 in May.
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